Prabhupāda: We are now in the material world. Here our position is, in every stage there is danger, padaṁ padaṁ yad vipadāṁ (SB 10.14.8). This is a place where you can expect every moment some type of danger.
This is a place like that, those who have come here. Just like in prison house where the prisoners are there, a little discrepancy, again punishment: "Oh, you have not done this," then again punishment, again punishment. Because that place is for punishment. How you can become happy, like your hog, in prison house? That is not possible. Because that prison house is created for punishing the criminals so that they may be rectified. That is the purpose.
Similarly, this material world is a prison house for us. They do not know that, they are making plans that "In this prison house we shall be happy." Therefore there is tri-tāpa-yātana, three kinds of miserable condition: adhyātmika, adhibhautika, adhidaivika. Adhyātmika means pertaining to the body and mind.
Everyone has got experience, "Oh I am not in good mood; my mind is not very satisfied. My body . . . today I have got headache," or some pain, or so many things—body and mind. This is called adhyātmika. And adhibhautika means distress offered by other living—just like mosquito, flies, rats, so many, and big tiger also, birds, so many things. Enemy—you are innocent, but you have got some enemy; he inflict some injury. So this is called adhibhautika. This kind of sufferings are always there.
And there are other sufferings, which is called adhidaivika. Just like in your country the other day there was all of a sudden inundation in New York . . .
Pradyumna: Pennsylvania
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Pradyumna: Pennsylvania.
Prabhupāda: Pennsylvania. You cannot check that. There may be immediately earthquake, and everything finished. There may be famine, there may be epidemic . . . they may be war . . . you have no control. Neither of these miserable condition you have no control.